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Sonata Arctica - Black Sheep [Hard]

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ZZT the Fifth
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Anyone ever heard of Sonata Arctica? Yes? No?

If you haven't, consider this an introduction to them. Sonata Arctica is a Finnish power metal band, and I picked one of my favorite songs of theirs, Black Sheep, to make a beatmap out of. I personally think I made a good choice, seeing how the beatmap turned out. But that's just me... why don't you guys give it a shot? :)

Advance warning: The fourth break is long, due to a guitar solo. I couldn't figure out how to map most of it, so it's gonna be a kinda long break. Hope you have 40 seconds to spare.

If anyone could get me some background images or something for this song, that'd be great. :D

http://osu.ppy.sh/d/63

Okay, I'm using the new timings. NOW will you heart it? :P
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eyup
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Haven't heard of the band myself, but I remember that Finnish rock band who won Eurovision a little while ago!

Not sure whether it's your sound card playing up again, or whether the song itself has something to do with it, but the timing seems off. Also you don't seem to have used beat snapping - or is that also sound card offset related?

The reason why I say the song may have something to do with it is because this is actually a very tricky song to map - it jumps between 3/4 (verses) and 4/4 (chorus) timings. At present there doesn't seem to be any way to switch the Edit Mode timing ticker to 3/4 time (hmmm Feature Request :D) so the ticks get a bit confusing after a while. I do think the timing is off though.

Aside from those issues, you've made another really nice map! Note/Slider/Spinner ratio is perfect and it is passable but challenging. The slider velocity seems to be off the scale! :D

I'll have a closer look at the timing and see if I can work something out.

eyupz
ZZT the Fifth
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I'unno, it just might be that my computer likes to seize up a bit sometimes when I run osu!... mainly because it's a slow as hell laptop and it sucks. That miiight be causing the problems.

If you're going to fix this up, remember that the hits are supposed to follow the lyrics (except for the part during the guitar solo, but you know that.) 'K? Thanks. :)
eyup
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Did you have beat snapping on when you were making the map?
ZZT the Fifth
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Yes, to quarter-beats of 200 BPM.

Edit: I just noticed that the first section seems a little off. Maybe I should poke at it a bit?
eyup
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Yeah by all means try messing around with it yourself and see how you go. I think the beat-snapping is OK now, but the timing is slightly off. Strange because 200BPM seems like a pretty nice number to put it at! I'll try figure out the BPM/offset for you while you fix up the beginning =)
ZZT the Fifth
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Re-uploaded. I fixed the beginning, as well as some oddness in the second half of the chorus.
eyup
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This is what I came up with - timing turned out to be 199.72 BPM o.0 Have Sonata Arctica got a superstition against the number 200 or something? :P

Download: Sonata Arctica - Black Sheep (ZZT the Fifth) [Hard].osu
ZZT the Fifth
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Re-uploaded! ...again!
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Sorry for the doublepost and bump, but, uh... when is this gonna get the heart? :P
Extor
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Nice beatmap you made. But eyup's version is the one that has good timings.

It was a bit hard for me because I didn't know the song, but I made it to the finish in one try. Very good song too, by the way.
ZZT the Fifth
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Fair enough. I'll update the osz with eyup's timings... I was trying to follow the lyrics, but I guess his version flows better.
Extor
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Ok, this song is now official. =D
ZZT the Fifth
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Uh, guys? I tried redownloading my Black Sheep beatmap from the site to see if it would redownload.

...It's saying it's modified or not officially ranked. What?
peppy
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Thanks for pointing this out - should be fixed now.
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